Summary[]
Alone with her thoughts and memories, Dot makes a tough decision about Jim and their future together.
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It is night time, and as Dot makes herself a cup of cocoa at home, she records a message on a tape recorder for her husband Jim, who is in hospital recovering from a stroke. Dot tells Jim everyone is missing him, and that she has been dreading recording the message. She talks about her Christian faith and remembers her childhood, her first marriage to Charlie Cotton and her friendship with Ethel Skinner. She talks about when she was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War and how she did not cry when she left her mother. She says she was happy moving away to live with her guardians, a Welsh couple named Gwen and Will, as they made her feel special, and recalls the happiest day of her life. She remembers how Will would sing "Pretty Baby" to her at night, but says since then everyone she has cared about has died. She finishes by telling Jim that the hospital staff want to send him home, but she fears she will not be able to cope and concludes she is better on her own. |
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Notes[]
- For the first and only time in the show's history, this episode was filmed entirely as a one-hander, only featuring Dot Branning.
- This episode had the additional working title of "Pretty Baby...".
- Instead of the regular credit sequence of the River Thames and the theme tune, the end credits of this episode played over Dot's dark kitchen with the additional theme tune of Pretty Baby by Dean Martin.